Definitions

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  • verb To gauge (measure) incorrectly

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  • verb gauge something incorrectly or improperly

Etymologies

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mis- +‎ gauge

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Examples

  • For a 17-year-old to badly misgauge his ability to handle road conditions is not the kind of seriously condemnatory behavior that the Legislature envisioned when it defined

    NY Court of Appeals 2009

  • For a 17-year-old to badly misgauge his ability to handle road conditions is not the kind of seriously condemnatory behavior that the Legislature envisioned when it defined "criminal negligence," even though the consequences here were fatal.

    NY Court of Appeals 2009

  • For a 17-year-old to badly misgauge his ability to handle road conditions is not the kind of seriously condemnatory behavior that the Legislature envisioned when it defined "criminal negligence," even though the consequences here were fatal.

    Criminal Law 2008

  • For a 17-year-old to badly misgauge his ability to handle road conditions is not the kind of seriously condemnatory behavior that the Legislature envisioned when it defined "criminal negligence," even though the consequences here were fatal.

    Sui Generis--a New York law blog: 2008

  • For a 17-year-old to badly misgauge his ability to handle road conditions is not the kind of seriously condemnatory behavior that the Legislature envisioned when it defined

    Criminal Law 2008

  • For a 17-year-old to badly misgauge his ability to handle road conditions is not the kind of seriously condemnatory behavior that the Legislature envisioned when it defined "criminal negligence," even though the consequences here were fatal.

    Generally Speaking, Death By Speeding Not a Crime 2008

  • For a 17-year-old to badly misgauge his ability to handle road conditions is not the kind of seriously condemnatory behavior that the Legislature envisioned when it defined

    Youthful Inexperience Is Not a Crime 2008

  • For a 17-year-old to badly misgauge his ability to handle road conditions is not the kind of seriously condemnatory behavior that the Legislature envisioned when it defined

    Sui Generis--a New York law blog: 2008

  • Animals with elongated (“stilts”) or shortened legs (“stumps”) take larger or shorter strides, respectively, and concomitantly misgauge travel distance.

    Detecting design: Specification versus Likelihood - The Panda's Thumb 2006

  • Now, I have to tell you, I did misgauge that because a majority of the Republican senators now sitting in the Senate voted for a similar stimulus when Ronald Reagan was President in 1983, and voted 28 times for regular supplemental appropriations like this.

    Presidents Press Conference ITY National Archives 1993

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